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Consonance
Consonance Con"so*nance, Consonancy Con"so*nan*cy, n. [L.
consonantia: cf. F. consonnance.]
1. (Mus.) Accord or agreement of sounds produced
simultaneously, as a note with its third, fifth, and
eighth.
2. Agreement or congruity; harmony; accord; consistency;
suitableness.
The perfect consonancy of our persecuted church to
the doctrines of Scripture and antiquity. --Hammond.
The optic nerve responds to the waves with which it
is in consonance. --Tyndall.
3. Friendship; concord. [Obs.]
By the consonancy of our youth. --Shak.
Syn: Agreement; accord; consistency; unison; harmony;
congruity; suitableness; agreeableness.
Meaning of Consonance from wikipedia
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consonance and
dissonance are
categorizations of
simultaneous or
successive sounds.
Within the
Western tradition, some
listeners ****ociate
consonance...
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affecting change, the
resultant mental stress restores psychological consonance to the
person by misperception, rejection, or re****ation of the contradiction...
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Consonance is a form of
rhyme involving the
repetition of
identical or
similar consonants in
neighboring words whose vowel sounds are
different (e.g.,...
- The North/South
Consonance Ensemble is an
American chamber ensemble dedicated to the
performance of
contemporary classical music from the Americas. It...
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Tonality and
provided a
formalization of
consonance.
Among the
earliest musical traditions,
musical consonance was
thought to
arise in a quasi-mystical...
- guitar. Open
tunings allow one-finger
chords to be pla**** with
greater consonance than do
other tunings,
which use
equal temperament, at the cost of increasing...
- In
music theory, a
minor chord is a
chord that has a root, a
minor third, and a
perfect fifth. When a
chord comprises only
these three notes, it is called...
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Russian statesman Alexander Gorchakov justified the
Russian expansion in
consonance of the
Manifest destiny of the
United States; thereafter, the Russian...
- its
perception in
large part
consists of
recognizing and
processing consonance, a
concept whose precise definition has
varied throughout history, but...
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intervals begins with
absolute consonance (1 to 1) and
gradually progresses into an
infinitude of dissonance, the
consonance of the
intervals decreasing...
